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CERN signs deal with UN intellectual property protection agency

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CERN signs deal with UN intellectual property protection agency

Staff attempt to load the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) detector into a US Air Force Galaxy aircraft during last preparations at Cointrin Airport in Geneva, August 25 2010. The AMS experiment, developed by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will search for antimatter and dark matter in space and will examine fundamental issues on the origin and structure of the Universe directly from space. It was to be flown to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on board a US Air Force Galaxy transport aircraft on August 26 and NASA is planning to deliver it to the International Space Station (ISS) during the last flight of the space shuttle programme for the end of February 2011.

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The United Nations agency tasked with helping to protect intellectual property has struck a co-operation agreement with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), known as the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

CERN is arguably best known for its Large Hadron Collider project, popularly known as the "Big Bang" project.

Francis Gurry, the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, signed the agreement last week in Geneva, WIPO announced on August 27 2010.

The pact focuses of four main areas: capacity building, awareness raising and knowledge sharing; transfers of technology and know-how; cooperation in the fields of technological, scientific and patent information; and alternative dispute resolution options.

Gurry said the agreement should provide mutual benefits to CERN and WIPO, which was established in 1967.

"CERN’s groundbreaking research in the field of particle physics is a fertile seedbed for innovation and technological development," he said. "This makes WIPO a natural ally in the mutual endeavour to facilitate technology transfer and to support enhanced and broad access to scientific and technological information."

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